Best of Nationals on 106.7 The Fan/The Team 980: The Deadline Looms…

The Sports Junkies

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🗓️ 25 July 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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The trade deadline is August 3, and until it passes (or a major move is made), THE hot topic for the Nats is going to be what they do ahead of said deadline. We cover all the latest in this week’s Best of Nationals, plus hear from first-round pick Chris Hacopian!

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0:00.0	So over the weekend, the Nats offense exploded for a ton of runs. Now, Saturday, they lost. But on Friday, they scored 23 runs. That's the game Danny should have called. I think he called the Saturday fair. He's calling the game on the 25th. Oh, I thought it was this past weekend. You think he went to Sacramento to call the game? I wasn't thinking.
0:40.3	I wasn't really thinking about. He's calling the game on the 25th when the D backs are in town. Okay, good. Yeah. Good. But they scored 23 runs on Friday. And then yesterday, they got back to 500. Got pounded on Saturday. Yeah. Okay. But the offense humming with the 23 runs on Friday. and then yesterday, CJ Abrams hits his 21st home run.
0:37.5	Dylan Cruz hit his seventh home run. Yep. They get a 5-2 to 2 win. Foster Griffin with another win. He's now 11 and 2, 2.68 ERA. Yep. One of the best pitchers in the other. The nationals from mark zuckerman he's gone eight straight
0:54.5	starts allowing zero or one run a gnats slash expo's franchise record right max scherzer never
1:00.7	did that he's having an unbelievable what a season davis rossberg never did that what a find
1:04.8	by tabonio unbelievable again foster griffin 11 and 2 2. ERA, CJA Abrams now with 21 home runs.
1:14.6	Siege.
1:15.2	The team is first in the major leagues in home runs with 142.
1:19.6	They're first in the major leagues and stolen bases with 105.
1:23.0	Their offense is fantastic.
1:26.2	ESPN just put out an article about the most tradable assets in
1:31.1	Major League Baseball. By the way, that article's been out for a while. Okay.
1:35.1	CJ Abrams, put it out. Number five. Yes. Foster Griffin number 19.
1:41.5	Yeah. How gut-wrenching and heartbreaking will it be or would it be if either of those guys
1:48.7	are traded?
1:48.7	By the way, they're not ranking the players in order of where they think they would be traded.
1:54.1	They're ranking them in order of talent.
1:56.7	Right.
1:57.2	Tradable asset.
1:58.0	Because if you look at the percentage that the passing puts on Abrams being traded, it's pretty low.
2:04.1	I actually would be more upset if they moved on from Foster Griffin.
2:09.8	Just because they don't have any pictures.
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